- Job title
- DevOps Engineer
- Job location
- New York City, NY
- Job description
- ## About Dili
Dili is a YC-backed, Series A startup using AI to automate compliance and due diligence for the industrial economy, starting with prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance.
Our platform helps developers, EPCs, contractors, and compliance teams manage complex labor requirements across energy, data center, infrastructure, manufacturing, and construction projects. Dili turns payroll records, regulations, and fragmented project data into clear compliance results, helping customers pass audits, protect funding, and keep projects moving.
Dili was founded by Anand Chaturvedi and Brian Fernandez, both formerly at Coinbase. After seeing how much critical work remained trapped in spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual review, they started Dili to build better software for managing complex compliance work across physical industries.
## The Role
We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer to own and improve the infrastructure that Dili’s product and engineering teams depend on.
You’ll work across AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, observability, security, and developer tooling. Your job will be to make it easier and safer for engineers to ship changes, operate production systems, investigate problems, and scale the platform as Dili grows.
This is a hands-on engineering role at an early-stage company. You’ll build infrastructure, automate operational work, respond to production issues, improve system visibility, and help establish practical standards for reliability and security.
You should be comfortable moving between planned infrastructure projects and immediate production needs. You’ll work closely with application engineers and the CTO, but you’ll be expected to develop your own view of where the platform needs improvement and take ownership of getting that work done.
## What You’ll Do
- Own and improve Dili’s production infrastructure across AWS, including ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, load balancing, networking, IAM, and related services.
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and ensure infrastructure changes are reviewable, repeatable, and safe.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for backend, frontend, infrastructure, migrations, and automated testing.
- Improve observability across services using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
- Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement lasting fixes rather than relying on manual intervention.
- Improve deployment safety through automated checks, progressive rollout practices, rollback procedures, and clear operational visibility.
- Partner with engineers to improve local development, testing, release workflows, and overall developer experience.
- Monitor system capacity, reliability, and cost, and make practical improvements as usage grows.
- Help define incident response, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity practices.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation and help improve the systems and processes that make on-call manageable.
## What Success Looks Like
### First 30 Days
Learn Dili’s architecture, deployment process, cloud infrastructure, security controls, and operational workflows.
Deploy changes through the existing pipeline, review recent incidents and recurring operational pain points, and begin contributing improvements to infrastructure or developer tooling.
### By 60 Days
Take ownership of a meaningful infrastructure area, such as CI/CD, observability, deployment reliability, cloud security, or production operations.
Deliver improvements that reduce manual work, improve visibility, or make releases safer and faster.
### By 90 Days
Complete a significant platform improvement with measurable results, such as faster deployments, fewer production issues, improved recovery time, stronger security controls, or reduced infrastructure cost.
Establish a prioritized infrastructure roadmap and become the person the engineering team relies on for production reliability and platform decisions.
## Qualifications
- Experience building and operating production infrastructure for a software product.
- Strong experience with AWS and a practical understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, databases, and identity management.
- Experience managing infrastructure through Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Comfortable working with containers and containerized production workloads.
- Strong understanding of production observability, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.
- Able to automate operational work using Python, shell scripting, or another programming language.
- Comfortable working directly with application engineers and understanding how infrastructure decisions affect product development.
- Strong security judgment
- Able to turn ambiguous operational problems into practical, maintainable solutions.
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication.
## Nice to Have
- Experience supporting SOC 2, SOC 1, or other security and compliance programs.
- Experience at an early-stage B2B SaaS company.
- Experience with systems that process sensitive documents, financial data, payroll data, or other regulated information.
## Benefits and Working Style
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Meaningful ownership over Dili’s infrastructure and engineering platform.
- Direct access to founders and company decision-making.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Company-funded laptop and home-office setup.
- Flexible PTO.
- A hybrid culture based in our Union Square office, with four in-office days per week.
- A small engineering team with direct communication, lightweight process, and a strong focus on maintainability.
